Open Dig - Harpswell, Lincolnshire - Sunday 20th March 2020

[jcmaloney]

Maximum 40 people.

£20 per person - all monies going to landowner.

65 acres of land made up of approx 40 acres of rotational drilled grass, very soft and easy to detect, and 25 acres of overwintered stubble.

Hard standing parking.

Arrivals after 8.00am - detecting from 9.00am until 5.00pm.

Nearest village is Harpswell which has a 10th Century church sitting just off the limestone ridge.

Landowner also found a Henry III penny whilst laying a drain.

Exact location will be mailed out 48 hours before.

We use www.what3words.com for locations as it is far more accurate than postcodes.

To attend please email: jcmaloney@btinternet.com

I need your name and vehicle reg number.

You will be added to a "Mailchimp" mailing list so please check spam/junk folder.

All finds over 300 years old MUST be notified to organiser for photographing on the day AND recorded with PAS to comply with Stewardship.

Treasure Act 1996 applies between finder & landowner.

Any single non-Treasure find over £500 to be split 50/50 between finder and landowner.

[detecting dusty]

hi can you please tell me if this dig is full Regards Steve

[jcmaloney]

hi can you please tell me if this dig is full Regards Steve

Not yet.

As per above ping an email to jcmaloney@btinternet.com

I`ll do a count up on Friday until its full.

[jcmaloney]

Pending a couple of confirmations, the book will close on this on Friday afternoon.

After that if your names not down you aren`t coming in.

[jcmaloney]

Well, turned out it was a bit bleak but as they say you don`t know till you try!
26 folk turned up some of whom were old friends from the detecting world. Several folk couldn`t make it for various reasons but our days out are never about numbers, they are far more social than that!
There was chocolate cake and much standing/sitting about chatting.
Finds: 1 VLC Penny made into a brooch - Treasure! 1 cut quarter, 1 IA/early Roman brooch, 1 annular brooch pin, 1 post medieval silver button, sunburn and half a bucket of scrap. The nature of Lincolnshire is its hard to find the good bits randomly and there is a lot of land out there, we were probably a little way off the busy areas but there is the suggestion of multi period activity in the area.
Lovely day on a new farm where the farmer wanted a trial run before committing to anything regular. He picked up £520 for opening the gate.
Turns out the family have 2,500+ acres between them.

Was going to add snaps but the file size limit precludes that sadly.

[kev woodward]

The nature of Lincolnshire is its hard to find the good bits

You really don't know Lincolnshire JC Plenty of ways to find the goodies here

Please do post up some photos, each one is limited to 60KB which should be more than enough

[jcmaloney]

The nature of Lincolnshire is its hard to find the good bits

You really don't know Lincolnshire JC Plenty of ways to find the goodies here

Please do post up some photos, each one is limited to 60KB which should be more than enough

Was too far from the village in my humble but it was close to the farm, which is how he wanted it.
He popped out several times to check on us.
As we will be going back it can only get better.
Dont know about the photo`s seem to load fine elsewhere just not here.

[Ghost]

Lincoln is amazing .
Here’s a free one for you….
Stixwould , I’ve had every coin in every metal around that area

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